Mutant Futures
Philip TealeCulture + foresight + strategy
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 20 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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333 at Futures Friends London
Recently, I took part in a Futures Friends ‘333’ event in London.
The format is simple: you present three trends, with three slides, in three minutes. I prepared a script for that which I later had to cut down, so I thought I’d share the...
Future Fiction Index
A few weeks ago, I wrote about inevitable futures, the imagination gap and why speculative fiction matters for futures thinking. I ended the piece with a promise of book recommendations. So here they are. The idea for this index grew out of...
The myth of inevitable futures
We can’t catch a break. The WEF risk report, the Mark Carney speech, the Doomsday Clock change — we’re constantly asking ourselves ‘what now?’ We’re continuously occupied by the grimness of the moment. We don’t really get to ask another que...
The Future of Slowness Briefing
Last autumn I wrote a series of essays on the elusive concept of ‘slowness’ — on what it means to ‘slow down’, but also, why it seems like we’re speeding up.
I pulled the insights and theories from those essays together, to build the back...
Year of the Mutant
It’s been a year! One full trip around the sun for Mutant Futures. 💫
As we head into 2026, I wanted to bookend the story so far with some reflections on the near-past and near-future.
But firstly, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who’s...
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